The discovery of Richard III’s skeletal remains under a car park in Leicester revealed the final resting place of the last English monarch to die in battle. We know that he was killed at the Battle of…

Richard III’s skeleton, dug up from a carpark in Leicester in 2012, is currently the subject of a legal dispute about where he should be buried. In one corner is the University of Leicester, whose archaeologists…

The bones of Richard III, whose remains were found more than 500 years after his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
AAP/University of Leicester5 février 2013

“It will be a whole new era for Richard III,” Lynda Pidgeon, spokeswoman for the Richard III Society, said of the discovery that the skeleton found under a car-park in Leicester is almost certainly that…

The skeleton of Richard III was discovered beneath a car park in Leicester, and identified using the DNA of his descendants.
EPA/HO5 février 2013

In the past few days news has come to light of the confirmation that skeletal remains discovered in an excavated site of a Leicester car park are indeed that of the famous English king Richard III. But…

These bones have prompted a discussion about how the English view the monarchy.
AAP/University of Leicester5 février 2013

The story is almost unbelievable: a king buried for five centuries under what is now a car park, identified through mtDNA analysis with the last surviving matrilineal descendants of his sister. But it…